Location: I live in on the Rosamond Skypark (CA) and am married to Victoria (Tuppergal).

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Rosie & Tuppergal's Southern California to Minden - Lake Tahoe trip

Happy New Year to our VAF Family of Friends! Tuppergal and I are nearing our 14th year of flying our RV, and with the price of fuel still over $5/gallon, we find ourselves flying-to-visit (friends) more so than flying-to-eat. Either way, we are STILL flying!

It had been awhile since we’d been to the Minden – Lake Tahoe (KMEV) area to visit Andrew ‘Sharkbait’ Brandt, his Mom Henrietta (my 4th & 6th grade elementary teacher), Dad Charles and brother Matthew.

We departed the day after Christmas (Thursday) around 1500 for the ~2 hour flight up the Owens Valley. The skies were clear and the winds were calm (a rare event!). We first stopped at Tehachapi (KTSP) for $4.87/gallon fuel and saw a friend of ours who is based out of Mojave. Hint: He has flown around-the-world…twice...once non-stop!

Here’s a view looking east of the windmills with Edwards AFB’s Roger’s Dry Lake in the distance:

From there, it was direct towards Inyokern (KIYK)…

Then slight dog-leg turn to fly up the Owens Valley:

The key to flying up the Owens Valley is to keep the ‘red stuff’ on the left:

Here’s the not-so-dry Owens dry lakebed:

Here we are abeam Lone Pine Airport with Mt. Whitney somewhere up in them thar’ hills:

One past Bishop (KBIH: about an hour from home), it’s another dog-leg turn northwest up the valley for one more hour’s flight to KMEV…

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